With agile going mainstream more and more entrepreneurs, are looking for new ways to organize their company.
When a company goes agile, it has an impact on the company culture.
Some of the smart managers I coach, ask me:
- what’s next?
- where can I look for examples of companies that don’t work the traditional way?
This is a list of books & documents about companies that are working in a less traditional way.
- Open Minds (St Luke)
- One from Many (Visa)
- Maverick (Semco)
- Valve employee handbook
- Scaling @ Spotify
- Netflix Culture & Responsibility
- Delivering Happiness (Zappos)
And because I’m in a good mood, instead of 7, here is 8the one, with examples of multiple companies wikinomics.
Although not a book (yet), the most amazing company I know is /UT7. Read the /UT7 story at Infoq
Another blogpost about how Buffer works as a Distributed company
If you are not in a mood for reading, you might want to watch this video about how open source projects survive poisonous people
Update:
Scott Berkun also wrote an interesting book about the year he worked at WordPress
The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
Update 2:
In the year 2014 I decided, I would like to join companies with creative (aka non standard structures or ways of working) and help them for a week or so. (If they work distributed maybe even longer). If you think your companies is one of these, please let me know.
Update 3:
- Frederick Laloux wrote an interesting book with Reïnventing Organisations
- David Marquez: Turn the Ship around
- Frank Van Massenhove: De collega’s werken van thuis
- Jeff Cumps: Sociocracy 3.0
Yves lots of people don’t have the time to read these books. True, will you give me links to articles about these and other companies in the comments?